WoW Project a Possibility?

[Otakatt]

I've always loved the music from World of Warcraft, but since Cataclysm has come out I've been blown away by it. I really feel the quality of the music has been kicked up a notch, and it left me wanting a WoW album, since I think that'd be phenomenal.

I realize that the WoW soundtrack is rather huge, so I think it's really unrealistic to try to touch up on it all. My idea for a more attainable project was sort of a... race theme. That doesn't mean you only remix each race's actual theme or home city, but you could, and you could incorporate whatever music from the game for that race.

There wouldn't be a genre limitation either, since a beautiful symphonic piece would suit humans and dwarves as much as techno or something kooky for goblins.

So there'd be 2 discs, so to speak, with 6 tracks on each. Disc 1 for the Alliance - Human, Night Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, Draenei, Worgen. Disc 2 for the Horde - Orc, Troll, Undead, Tauren, Blood Elf, Goblin. 12 tracks in total, which I think is a realistic goal.

OCR quality would be the ultimate goal, but I'd rather not tread too far too fast. This post is mostly to test the waters and see if anyone has any sort of interest in a project like this for now or in the future. I really think it has potential, and hey, if someone else does too who feels they'd be more qualified to direct a project than me, hey, go for it!

(Disclaimer: Kyle told me to do this so all complaints can be directed to him~)

[KyleJCrb]

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[Bahamut]

There's a bunch in the community that plays WoW - you could try asking Gecko Yamori or starla.

[Kanthos]

I love the idea of a WoW project, but I wouldn't necessarily try to limit it to the 12 races. For one thing, the trolls don't have their own theme, really. Also, one thing I've heard from other projects is that you always want to remix the "key theme" and that not doing so can be a mistake (something like doing a Zelda project without the overworld theme); for WoW, that'd probably be the title theme, although Cataclysm's opening only hints at it.

Doing an Alliance and Horde album though sounds neat; maybe if there was interest, adding in a few of the other significant tracks in the game and putting them on the album where it's most significant (Lament of the Highborne on the Horde album, music from Karazhan on the Alliance album since Medivh was human, etc.) Not trying to broaden the scope too much here, just tossing out other ideas.

[KyleJCrb]

Well, the idea here is to take a source and come up with a theme for each race, so the fact that the trolls don't have a specific theme is kind of irrelevant, because the remixer is being tasked with creating one.

However, I will agree that covering the main theme and a couple other significant songs from the game would be a good idea.

[Ramaniscence]

Me and starla will discuss this immediately.

Side note: I listen to the Cataclysm soundtrack on loop all day at work ;-;

[OceansAndrew]

I would do a remix of the calm Wintergrasp themes in a heartbeat if this were to happen.

http://www.oceansend.com/5502/temp/WG_GeneralWalk_01.mp3

http://www.oceansend.com/5502/temp/WG_GeneralWalk_02.mp3

http://www.oceansend.com/5502/temp/WG_GeneralWalk_03.mp3